FGCU’s First Year Experience hosted Eagles Excel

October 01, 2024

Before the fall semester began, FGCU’s First Year Experience & Retention Programs hosted Eagles Excel, with over 450 first year students in attendance. Eagles Excel is a pre-semester program for first-year students. With 15 unique programs to choose from, it was an opportunity for first-year students to get connected within their major, meet peers and faculty, experience lectures, take part in mock exams and have a head start on the semester.

Shelly Schlenk, coordinator of academic programs for the Lutgert College of Business, gives a lecture to a classroom full of FGCU students. Students are sitting at tables in groups. As she is facing students behind a podium, a presentation screen is displayed in the background with syllabus material

Shelley Schlenk, coordinator of academic programs for Lutgert College of Business, speaks with students about the college while they engage in Q&A’s.

Created and coordinated by Christina Kreiger, director of retention and engagement programs for First Year Experience; and Autum Bradley, coordinator of First Year Experience, the Eagles Excel programs ranged from chemistry, algebra, biology, resort and hospitality management, theatre, business and many more. More information on First Year Experience can be found at www.fgcu.edu/firstyearexperience.